“Damn referees, I’ll miss them less than anybody.”

Finish last in your league and they call you idiot. Finish last in medical school and they call you doctor.

Coaches who shoot par in the summer are the guys I want on my schedule in the winter.

They wanted to buy out my contract, but I couldn’t make change for a $20, so they had to let me stay.

You always catch the wrong players.

The trouble with retirement is that you never get a day off.

If I make a set of rules, then a guy goes out and steals an airplane. He comes back and says, ‘It wasn’t in the rules.’

Hell no. When I die I want to be sick.

I don’t have any tricky plays. I’d rather have tricky players.

I don’t understand these new coaches who don’t drink. What do they do when they get beat?

Doctors bury their mistakes, but mine are still on scholarship.

You may be big in New York, but in Walters, Oklahoma, you’re nobody.

You mean in the state?

I’d rather be a football coach. That way you only lose eleven games a year.

We did have three go to the YMCA.

If you weren’t on Chris Economaki’s radar screen, you probably weren’t on anybody’s.

I punish myself more than anybody else does if I am stupid about my actions, and I suffer, really suffer.

I don’t try to sensationalize anybody. I’m not trying to entertain. I’m trying to give information and give access to me and tell about our program.

Anybody who can drive and doesn’t come out of it a rich man is a fool.

We want to get people laughing; we don’t want to offend anybody.

Anybody who knows me… when I’m tired, I sleep with my eyes open.

My motto is never to try to imitate anybody: I have always looked inward and followed the inward voice.

I didn’t want to admit I had problems. I just let ’em build up. I didn’t want anybody to know I was hurtin’.